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Tempo 2 Sect.00 5 Cncago TfOune, FtiCSa. Decembef 20 1991 Treatment for frostbite depends on its severity The Far Side By Dr. Neil Solomon I knoH frostbite can be serious, but 1 also know it's not necessary to run to an emergency room eery time one of mv children plav in the snow and complains that his Hands are To your health increasing. Unlike bifocals and trifocals, the progressive addition lens offers a gradual change in power over the area of the lens. I am a long-distance runner, and this apparently has affected my menstrual period.

My doctor has told me that if it continues for any length of time, I am more likely to detelop osteoporosis. He has recommended birth control pills, which I've started taking, and I'd appreciate your opinion of this form of treatment for a 29-year-old woman. A The interruption of the menstrual cycle is usually related to a decrease in the production of estrogen, a female hormone. The lack of estrogen, in turn, may be associated with bone loss, which can eventually result in osteoporosis. Therefore, by taking oral contraceptives, you are providing yourself with the estrogen you need, and thus helping prevent osteoporosis.

Do animals get Lyme disease? If they do, can a human get the disease from the animal? A Lyme disease has developed in cats, dogs, cows and horses, but there is no evidence that they can transmit the disease to humans. Dr. Solomon's column appears in Tempo on Mondays and Fridays. If you have a medical question, write to him at P.O. Box 36184, Baltimore, Md.

21285-6184. Dr. Solomon cannot give personal replies, but will answer as many questions as possible in his column. 1991. Los Angeles Times Syndicate "My gun, Desmond! I sense this striped man-eater is somewhere dead ahead, waiting to ambush us! Ohhhhhh, he thinks he's so clever." cold.

hat do I do if a child complains of frostbite? Hon do I judge when frostbite requires a doctor? A If a child has severe frostbite, the skin will be cold, waxy and pale, and will feel numb. In such cases, emergency room treatment is advisable. In less serious cases, the skin may be gray or yellow, and the child may say it tingles, a kind of pins-and-necdles sensation. Then the first step, of course, would be to get the child indoors. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends warming the skin with warm water or warm compresses, or by placing the frostbitten part of the body next to skin that is of normal temperature.

One thing that should not be done is to rub the frostbitten area. Children are more susceptible to frostbite than are adults. Length of exposure is an important consideration, because frostbite may occur even when the temperature is above freezing. One way to help prevent this is to change the child's clothing and shoes when they become wet. Is it true that cold temperatures do not cause a cold? And is it true that chicken soup is good for a cold? A A cold is caused by a virus.

of dollars. A Have you thought of a jump rope? You can get a good one for about SIO, but as any child can tell you. a length of clothesline can also do the job. Rope jumping can be done any time, provides an excellent workout and can be done indoors when the weather is bad. I've been wearing bifocals for years, and some of my friends wear trifocals.

But one person in our group recently bought a pair of glasses that don't have the lines that separate the different parts of the glasses. They are not bifocals or trifocals, but from what I understand, they do the same job. Do you have any information on them? A You may be referring to something called a progressive addition lens. These lenses arc really not new, having been around for a number of years, but their use is so the only way to catch a cold is to come into contact with the virus. This usually occurs when a person with a cold coughs or sneezes or kisses someone.

There is a lag of about three to seven days between the time a person is exposed to the cold virus and the time symptoms appear. It is a good idea to drink liquids if you have a cold, and chicken soup falls within this category. So do water, tea and fruit juices. Can you suggest an inexpensive exercise that can be done at home? I've decided to remain at home until my children are older, but I miss my exercise classes. I've also priced some exercise equipment, but it runs into the hundreds No kidding From "Kister's Concise Guide to Best Encyclopedias," the estimated number of words in seven encyclopedias: 1.

New Encyclopedia Britannica 44 million words 2. Encyclopedia Americana 31 million 3. Collier's Encyclopedia 21 million 4. New Standard Encyclopedia 10 million 5. World Book Encyclopedia 9 million 6.

Compton's Encyclopedia 9 million 7. Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia 9 million Wort) Features Syndcate Conspiracy CE-399: The magic bullet CE-399 was found to be in near-perfect condition so a test was performed. Same type of bullet fired once through a cadaver's wrist, was severely deformed Commission Exhibit 399 or "magic bullet" was found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital. The commission contends that this bullet, virtually undamaged, passed through Kennedy and Connally, causing 7 separate wounds. Researchers contend the zig-zagging flightpath.

shown below, was impossible: CE-399 Test ever there is any element of mystery in such dramatic events, misconceptions often result from sensational speculations." Perhaps what has stimulated much disbelief that Oswald acted alone is the reluctance to believe that nobodies can kill kings. Dr. James W. Pennebaker, professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University, has researched the assassination. "People desperately need to understand their world," he said.

"There's nothing more threatening than chaos or random violence, and here was this mammoth event with this piddling explanation. A seriously disturbed guy, a loser, who did it by himself, transform ming history. We can't handle this. We need a cause commensurate in size with the Conspiracies are much more com-, forting." fV Path of CE-399 (Warren Commission) Enters neck; exits throat Enters back; breaks rib; exits chest Enters forearm; exits wrist This weekend experience. Absolute relaxation.

ing of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit. The arrest of Oswald in the Texas Theater. The killing of Oswald on Nov. 24.

Questions. Why did the head shot, if it came from behind him, cause Kennedy's body to jerk rapidly backward? Were there only three shots? The House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 said a police Dictabelt tape showed four, which "probably" suggests a conspiracy. A re-examination of the committee's tape by the National Academy of Sciences said there was no fourth shot. Dave Perry, a Dallas insurance man who has researched the assassination since the '70s, said that if one combines all theories, there were 33 assassins in and around Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy was shot. Perry predicted that "JFK" will have people who claim to have knowledge of the assassination storming TV talk shows for exposure.

Aynesworth concurred: "The assassination makes people come out of the woodwork to say anything to get them publicity. I've never seen anything like it." Was there a conspiracy? "You can't prove a negative," Aynesworth said. "1 think the Warren Commission got it right. Its report is the same as any report of a crime that's put to the scrutiny the assassination was. "In any case this big, you'll get conflicting statements from witnesses, ineptitude and jealousies among investigative agencies.

The report has all kinds of holes, but in one way, that's its strength. If they wanted to cover up, they'd throw out the inconsistencies and disagreements. But they dumped everything in, and all the conspiracy theorists begin there. "I think some researchers are truly honest. Some aren't too bright.

Some are opportunists. The problem with some theories is you have to go farther than 1 and 1 is 3. You have to believe 1 and 1 is 16 or 17." Newsweek lists the Warren Commission findings that do not appear in Stone's movie: Physical evidence linked the weapon that killed Kennedy to Oswald; the autopsy found that Kennedy's wounds came from the rear; several witnesses "identified Oswald as the man who shot Officer and the shell casings found at the scene came from Oswald's handgun, which he carried when Then-New Orleans District Atty. Jim Garrison (shown in 196) failed to prove a conspiracy. Premiere, "the importance of a historical truth is not just its factual content but its emotional and ethical significance as well." Still, the finished movie has drawn fire.

In last Sunday's New York Times, Tom Wicker declared that "JFK" was marked by "wild assertions," paranoia and fantasy, and treated "matters that are wholly speculative as fact and truth, in effect rewriting history." The cover of Newsweek blared, "The Twisted Truth of 'JFK' Why Oliver Stone's New Movie Can't Be Trusted." "What Stone has done is irresponsible," Aynesworth said. "People will think this movie is real." Getting the facts Yet one can sympathize with anyone who tries to unravel the conundrums attached to, in the commission's words, "the tragic developments of Nov. 22-24, 1963." Stone has called the case a "labyrinth," and author John David, who wrote a book on the Kennedy assassination, sees it as "a swamp get sucked into it and you never get One must become familiar with a host of sites, events, witnesses, exhibits and hypotheses: The window on the sixth floor of the orange-brick Texas School Book Depository where the commission said Oswald fired his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle three times, missing one shot, striking Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally with one round and blowing Kennedy's head open with Continued from page 1 should be called 'coincidence theorists' or all of us should be historians." By whatever name they are known, you can bet all are aware they have a conspicuous new member in the club, namely Oliver Stone with his $40 million movie "JFK." John Judge is among those pleased that Oliver Stone has joined the ranks. For one thing, the two mesh on most major points.

Both believe that the Warren Commission investigation was a coverup and that its finding that 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, "acting alone and without advice or assistance," was a lie. For another, Judge thinks "JFK" is likely to reach an audience too young to know much about the assassination or the controversy surrounding it, which will enable Stone "to move them along from thinking the crime was committed by a lone gunman to understanding it was an organized conspiracy." It shouldn't be an overwhelming challenge. Polls indicate that a majority of Americans are already convinced. Public needs no persuading A Washington Post survey conducted in the spring found 56 percent of respondents believed in a conspiracy and only 19 percent went along with the Warren Commission. A Gallup poll commissioned by Stone found those percentages to be 73 and 16, respectively.

And though some details may differ, Stone and Judge share similar visions about this conspiracy, which, in their view, is astonishingly vast. According to the Time magazine review, "JFK" incriminates "high officials in the CIA, the FBI, the Dallas constabulary, all three armed services, Big Business and the White House." Judge also indicts the Mafia, former Nazis and anti-Castro Cubans. Both were prompted to study the assassination by books, Judge in 1968 by lawyer Mark Lane's "Rush to Judgment" and Stone in 1988 by "On the Trail of the by Jim Garrison, whose character would be central to "JFK." Even their bleak outlooks jibe. "We have a fascist security state running this country," Stone told the Los Angeles Times. "We live in a police intelligence state," Judge said.

"The assassination was America's first coup d'etat," Stone writes in the current issue of Premiere magazine. "My analysis was that the assassination was the result of a covert military coup d'etat organized at top levels by the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Judge said. He believes that ever since, the country "has been in the death grip" of the "military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us against. They didn't just kill Kennedy; they killed hundreds of others. They have mounted geno-cidal wars across the world for profit.

They see the population here as the enemy and expendable." The oligarchy that runs the country, he further believes, is composed of two main groups of wealth and power on the East and Knight-Ridder Tribune News myopia becomes morally repugnant. Stone's new movie proves that he has passed that point." The combative Stone cried foul. He said the script had been revised several times and many objectionable scenes cut. "There's a thousand and one vultures out there crouched on their rocks waiting for me," he told Texas Monthly. "They want to come down and peck out my eyes and rip my guts out.

I think the press is motivated, in part, by fear. Fear of new facts." But Garrison remained the champion of "JFK," a concern also for Hugh Aynesworth, who covered the Kennedy assassination for the Dallas Morning News and the Garrison investigation for Newsweek. "I don't think a normal guy could be around Garrison without realizing what he was doing, that he's crazy, a strange man, a megalomaniac," Aynesworth said. "I personally discredited 60 or 70 of his witnesses. He could change his theory in a moment.

He made six or seven major changes. When better stuff came along, he'd abandon the witnesses he had been hanging the old theory on." Rosemary James, who covered Garrison's inquiry foe the New Orleans States-Item, told Newsweek, "He went from a highly intelligent eccentric to a lunatic in the period of a year." Stone acknowledges that Garrison has flaws but says his intention in "JFK" is to portray him as an underdog, an Everyman who fights the system to seek the truth. "In the end," Stone writes in West Coasts, which usually cooperate but sometimes contend. He believes George Bush and the Eastern group mandated the assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. "Reagan quickly got the message the Bushes were behind it.

The families represent different money sources and positions on issues." The implications are that this is an Evil Empire. Judge laughed. "That's right," he said, "this is the real Evil Empire." So why don't "they" rub out Stone? Stone told the Texas Monthly, "I got a lot of light on me. To kill me would point the finger at something a little bizarre, wouldn't it?" Focus on Stone Indeed, there has been a lot of light and heat on Stone. Since beginning production of "JFK," the filmmaker has been the focus of numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

In some instances, he has seemed more a target. Perhaps the harshest criticism has been aimed at his decision to make former New Orleans District Atty. Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Cost-ner) the hero of his movie and to embrace a collection of conspiracy theories, from the plausible to the weird. Washington Post reporter George Lardner who covered Garrison's unsuccessful attempts in the late '60s to prove a conspiracy, read the first draft of the script for "JFK," observed filming of assassination scenes on location fvx Pure luxury. jj I his week- on enu, enjoy 7 Chicago the arrested.

The Warren Commission tried to address the loose ends in Appendix XII, "Speculations and Rumors." It began: "Myths have traditionally surrounded the dramatic assassinations of history. Wher- another. Dealey Plaza. The grassy knoll. Badge Man.

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